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Wanted: Small or Short-Term Rails Gigs

So, the title says it all. Right now I am finishing up my latest long-term project and I will have some time for some small projects. I am willing to work direct or possibly with other Rails consultants or consulting shops who want to bring someone in for a couple weeks or up to a couple months. I really don’t want to take on anything longer but would be willing to entertain a bigger project is it was the right thing to do. I have been doing Rails applications for the past couple...

2008 - Another Year Gone By

This is my last post of the year and almost forgot to publish it. It seems 2008 really sailed by, but I tend to say that every year. I am not the kind of person who makes New Year’s resolutions, I have enough things going on that I don’t need to add more pressure to myself. I usually spend part of my last day of the year just looking back at accomplishments, bother personally and professionally and wonder if I should have handled things a bit differently. This year is no different. ...

Turning Down the Social Noise

It was about a month ago and I was sitting here in my home office reading some Twitter tweets and catching up on some blog reading and a series of tweets came by the screen from one of the .NET folks with the loudest mouth and the least to say with just another gripefest about Microsoft and other .NET developers not as bright as he. I bet if you think not-so-hard you can figure out who this person is and I won't have to tell you. It was at that very moment that I had a vision or you could say a defining...

Attending Conferences

Miles Burke has a really great article on the SitePoint web site about attending conferences and the reasons to do so. Miles points out two great reasons to attend a conference: Let’s start with education. You’ll learn more from attending one conference than all the books and blog posts you can read in one month. This may sound like a tall order, but seriously, if you are actively listening to the presenter, it’s hard not to learn more than by simply being there. And: Then there’s...

Over 2000 Open Source Web Designs

I have an affliction that seems to prevent me from being able to create a web design I am happy with. I can easily point out what I consider a good design but creating is another story. A web site, pointed out by Mike Gunderloy over at the Web Worker Daily , simple called Open Source Web Designs is a great resource. The site has been around for the past 5 years and consists of designs submitted by the community. Most of the designs are XHTML and CSS, which I find particularly useful. I have spent...

Career Crossroads and Deciding What is Next

I have had a pretty good career so far, gone from college to running my own technology company for 10-years, selling it and taking on some interesting software development and lead roles for a few companies and fast-forwarding to now where I am an independent software developer. My current large client project is coming to an end as the project is losing funding. I have some smaller projects I work on but I have had a single project for the pas couple years which paid the bills and afforded me to...

CartoonMe and Twitter

Have you ever wondered how some of your Twitter friends have those cool cartoon versions of themselves? I was put onto one such service from one my Twitter friends. The source I found recently was from a web site called CartoonMe , and for $5.69 you can have one too. Here is a pic of my mug before becoming a cartoon: And here is me after CartoonMe got done with it: I think I look better as a cartoon than I do in real life but now have a cool Twitter icon for a while. Technorati Tags: Twitter , Cartoonme...

Finally Ordered a New Office Chair

I have been using the same Staples special office task chair for the last 8 years, yes 8 years. It has served me very well but the cloth was starting to wear out heavily on the seat and it was time to get something new. I considered many options as my analytical mind does and contemplated long and hard. The decision was influenced from many factors including: Cost - I am, let's say..frugal and I didn't want to spend too much. I learned from looking at the chairs that cost was so subjective and it...

Reblogging - Enemy of the Blogger and Writer

I have been a .NET and Ruby editor for InfoQ since the end of the Summer of 2007, so about 7 months now and have been having a great time. I have learned a lot about the web publishing industry and about aspects of technology I may not have otherwise been exposed to. I am grateful to Floyd at InfoQ for the opportunity. Much of my writing comes from the 200 or so blogs I subscribe to and browse on a daily basis. I say "browse" because I just don't have time to read them all. I look for interesting...

Wanted: Someone to assist with Wordpress Design

I have been running this blog for quite sometime now and would like to hire someone to make some design changes to it. My blog is currently hosted by Wordpress and I am not interested in changing this, I have built a good traffic base with the basic domain from Wordpress and also don't want to deal with self-hosting. With that said, I am not impressed by the current built-in designs at the free Wordpress hosted service. I would pay to have my own theme but the best Wordpress offer right now is the...

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